Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Add Media Centre to Windows 8 for free!

For a limited time you can add media center to windows 8 for free.

Click the link and add your details.. the process worked for me.

Add features - Microsoft Windows:

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

WD Green Vs Red

It seems a bit weird to me that the WB green drivers are more power hungry than the red drives... Don't believe me? go check out the specs for yourself.

GREEN
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-701229.pdf
RED:
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771442.pdf


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Monday, October 15, 2012

Bitlocker Logs

I don't agree with the group policy method for troubleshooting. I believe that a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) Log should be report back or log to a centralised database (Microsoft BitLocker Administration tool?). We really need to have the ability to report on what is causes BitLocker recovery key requests. Having to turn off individual PCR's (Platform Configuration Registers) in GPO is is a very slow and painful process to determine what is causing the lockout especially if we are trying to determine a RCA (Root Cause Analysis) after a lockout event.


The below blog post from blogs.technet.com explains a bit about Bitlocker. The author uses many abbreviations without explaining the abbreviation. This makes the document hard to read especially since the document is meant to be a "starter" type introduction to BitLocker.

Starter for someone who is not familiar with bitlocker part III - Digging in - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: "Now there is a way how we can configure TPM platform validation profile or in simple words asking TPM to measure what and what not before releasing secret (not recommended though) we have a group policy"

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